Re: Error during potato bf install

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

marcel@qahwah.cistron.nl (Marcel Harkema) writes:
> Op woensdag 06 oktober 1999 rond 11:16 schreef Matt:
> > On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 07:08:04PM +0200, Marcel Harkema wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 09:41:46AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Here's a transcript, is perl5.005 a little broken right now?
> > > > 
> > > > Can't locate auto/POSIX/autosplit.ix in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/powerpc-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/powerpc-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/AutoLoader.pm line 127.
> > > >  at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/powerpc-linux/POSIX.pm line 6
> > > 
> > >   Add perl-5.005 package to PACKAGES_all.
> > 
> > That's unfortunate since it will bloat the base system by another 5 MB, it
> > does however solve the problem...thanks.

>   Adding:
> 
>   -rw-------   1 root      1732514 Sep 27 15:33 perl-5.005_5.005.03-4.deb
> 
>   solved it for me.  I didn't have time to look for a more space efficient
>   solution.  Ok, it adds 1.7meg of stuff the user prolly will install anyway :)

Um, no, this is unacceptable.  If perl as well as perl-base is
required in the base section, something is critically wrong and needs
to be fixed.  I.e., why bother having a perl-base package in that
case.

I'm kicking this over to the debian-perl list for comment.

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